Sexism
Brussels ban is barmy (The Sunday Post, Scotland, p. 14): "If anyone in Beijing still yearns for the good old days of Mao's hard-line Communist regime, perhaps they should consider a move to Brussels. For if the latest piece of bureaucratic barminess to emanate from the European Parliament is anything to go by, the EU looks like becoming the inheritor of policies long abandoned by the modern Chinese leadership. Now the EU is trying to impose the same grey conformity but using language rather than clothes. They've issued guidelines to their MEPs instructing them on how to use "gender-neutral" language. The aim is that a woman's marital status, or even the fact that she is a woman at all, should never come into a conversation at the European Parliament."
EU Animal Cruelty
The EU causing the needless pain and death of millions of animals. The Reach Chemical Directive, EC Regulation 2006/1907 requires that all substances in the EU undergo rigorous testing and expensive EU registration. As a result millions of animals will suffer due to expensive tests on products like cleaning agents and beauty products like perfumes, that have already been proven safe under Member State laws.
Biofuel Pollution and Food Price Rises
The EU has used 'green energy' to pollute more and force up the price of food. They decided to order the set-aside of 10% of agricultural land for growing crops like rapeseed. The rapeseed oil etc is then used to make bio-fuel. Not only are bio-fuels emissions no better than those of petroleum, but the bio-fuels policy has helped to push up the price of cereals, animal feed, dairy products and meat.
EU Wind Farm Failure
The EU has ordered the construction of massive wind farms. They don't work and for as simple reason. Wind is not constant and therefore not a reliable source of energy. Wind turbines actually need generators as back up just to keep turning over when the wind drops o they aren't even green. They can't turn a profit and are financed by a hefty government subsidy. a government subsidy. Incidentally, their energy is needed most when it is very cold, but cold snaps often occur during anti-cyclones when there is no wind.
EU Fossil Fuel Filching
The EU is trying to seize control of British oil and gas. Why? Because Russia turns off the gas to Eastern Europe each Winter. In January 2009 the EU announced the Lisbon Treaty will give the power to seize control of British and Dutch oil and gas - which they in order to supply Eastern Europe. Energy security. Meanwhile North Sea oil is running out - so much for EU energy security.
EU Ecological Disasters
The EU has stolen our fish and cost us 97,000 jobs. Article 38 of the 1957 Treaty of Rome which set up the EEC now the EU decreed that there should be a Common Fisheries Policy. When the UK joined the EU we sacrificed our fishing grounds to their trawlers. Our fishing grounds devastated, the EU now fixes quotas and forces fishermen to throw excess fish back into the sea, dead. Only Iceland has a properly managed fishing grounds and they are not in the EU yet.
Loads of Rubbish
The EU encourages rats and vermin by cutting your bin collections. The EU landfill directive 99/31/EC imposes large fines on the UK if we don't cut back on landfill rubbish. To achieve their cutback targets, many local Councils have cut back from weekly to fortnightly bin collections to force you to recycle more. The lingering rubbish attracts rats and other vermin, and the recycling costs more money than it makes.
